Two nooses were discovered hanging from trees in central Brooklyn this month, according to local City Council member Robert Cornegy, Jr. and the NYPD.

A 31-year-old man was walking on Eastern Parkway near the corner of Classon Avenue around 10:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 7th, when he saw a noose hanging from a tree, police said. The intersection is a block east of the Brooklyn Museum in Crown Heights.

The following Thursday, around 8:00 p.m., someone hung a white noose from a tree outside of the Brooklyn Library branch at 496 Franklin Avenue near Hancock Street in Bed-Stuy.

7.Ch'er wrote:

8.Oh God wrote:

I hope they catch whoever did this. That’s terrifying.
And to #1 wth makes you think it’s fake news? Can you back up that statement with facts and data? Oh right…..those are probably foreign concepts to you.
And it doesn’t matter who the hate crime is geared towards. Whoever is the subject of a hate crime is a victim and it’s our duty as Jews to make the world brighter, and a big part of this is not dismissing attacks just because they’re aimed towards a different group. Don’t be jerks. Non Jews matter too.

11.where's the empathy? wrote:

This is the equivalent of swastikas being spray painted. Do you care about the swastikas? Then you should care about the nooses. A little empathy for another oppressed group, please. We don’t have the monopoly on suffering and persecution.

12.Milhouse wrote:

Don’t be ridiculous. There is no comparison at all.

For one thing, painting someone’s wall without permission is a crime; hanging something from a tree is not a crime, and therefore by definition can’t be a hate crime. So what exactly are the police investigating?

Second, the idea that a noose expresses hostility to black people is a ridiculous invention. Hanging is the standard way people of all races are executed, whether lawfully by the judicial system or unlawfully by mobs. (and no, when lynching was somewhat common in the US it was not racial at all; all kinds of suspected criminals were lynched, black, white, Jewish, Chinese, and everything else.)

17.The kangeroo wrote:

18.Chaim wrote:

Remember how this story (link bellow) was used to attack then candidate Trump, they also said things like… “we believe that the rhetoric from the White House contributes directly to setting a climate that makes people think that it’s acceptable that these acts take place.”

20.Not fake news wrote:

21.Milhouse wrote:

What are the police investigating? Hanging something from a tree is not a crime, and therefore by definition can’t be a hate crime. If the person who did this is ever discovered he can’t be arrested or charged with anything. So why are police resources being wasted in an attempt to find him? It looks to me like police harassment, and an attempt to suppress this person’s civil rights under color of law, which is a crime.

22.Crown Heights Lady wrote:

I saw the video. I watched multiple times. and I didn’t see a noose hanging from a tree. All I saw was a rope. People are making something from nothing. For all you know it could have been left there by the parade weeks ago.

23.Agree with the Lady. wrote:

That’s the best explanation. It’s not a noose it’s some left over rope from the parade.
Now that’s a real crime. If the police have time to investigate such things then let them investigate a real crime THE PARADE (move it out of Brooklyn).